In his feature on the Occupy library outside St Paul's, Richard Lea notes the variety of titles on offer: "Will Hutton's The State We're In is shelved alongside Subcomandante Marcos's Zapatista Stories, Dean Koontz's The Husband piled on top of Brian Friel's Translations. Simon Sebag Montefiore's novel Sashenka is cheek by jowl with John Baylis and Steve Smith's The Globalization of World Politics, while David Craig's Squandered sits under a shiny hardback of Cory Doctorow's young adult thriller Little Brother."

This set us thinking – what are the books you would recommend to protesters to keep their spirits, and their resolve, up? Would it be an improving tome to educate them, or a feelgood novel to warm their hearts as the nights get colder? A conspiracy thriller to fan the anger or a classic play script to remind them of the cultural riches that are under threat from the slash and burn of literary and cultural institutions.